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Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, C. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More Information Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600--900 This major new history of monasticism in early Anglo-Saxon England explores the history of the church between the conversion to Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the tenth. It represents the first comprehensive revision of accepted views about monastic life in England before the Benedictine reform. Sarah Foot shows how early Anglo-Saxon religious houses were simultaneously active and contemplative, their members withdrawing from the preoccupations of contemporary aristocratic society while in a very real sense remaining part of that world. Focusing on the institution of the ‘minster’ (the communal religious household) and rejecting a simplistic binary division between active ‘minsters’ and enclosed ‘monasteries’, Foot argues that historians have been wrong to see minsters in the light of ideals of Benedictine monasticism. Instead, she demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon minsters reflected more of contemporary social attitudes; despite their aim for solitude, they retained close links to aristocratic secular society. SAR AH FOO T is Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, Oxford. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600--900 SARAH FOOT Christ Church, Oxford © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521739085 © Cambridge University Press 2006 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2006 First paperback edition 2009 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Foot, Sarah. Monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600--900 / Sarah Foot. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-521-85946-2 (hardback) ISBN-10: 0-521-85946-8 (hardback) 1. Monastic and religious life -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600--1500. 2. England -- Church history -- 449--1066. I. Title. BX2592.F66 2006 271.00942’09021 -- dc22 2006013834 isbn 978-0-521-85946-2 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-73908-5 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Information regarding prices, travel timetables, and other factual information given in this work is correct at the time of first printing but Cambridge University Press does not guarantee the accuracy of such information thereafter. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information Contents List of plates page vii List of figures ix Preface xi List of abbreviations xiii 1 Introduction: situating the problem 1 Definition of terms 7 Approach and method 12 Retrospective readings 14 A contemporary perspective 22 Historiographical contexts 27 Monastic life in England c. 600--900 31 2 The ideal minster 34 Minsters as total institutions 38 Organising space 42 Regulating communal life 48 The monastic family 69 Part I Within the walls 3 The making of minsters 75 The foundation of minsters 77 The endowment of minsters 87 The physical character of early minster sites 96 The economic basis of the religious life 120 The control of monastic lands and endowments 127 The making of minsters 134 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information Contents 4 The minster community 138 Monastic vocations 139 Entry to the religious life 152 Monastic discipline 166 The minster community 172 Conclusion 184 5 Daily life within minsters 186 Prayer and worship 189 Manual labour 211 Education and learning 226 Food and drink 232 Leisure 239 Conclusion 247 Part II Without the walls 6 Dependencies, affinities, clusters 251 Monastic friendships 253 The Wilfridian affinity 258 Irish and Frankish models 265 Medeshamstede and its colonies 268 Clusters and dependencies 276 Conclusion 280 7 Minsters in the world 283 The cure of souls 285 The laity and the minster 321 Conclusion 331 Coda 8 Horizons 339 Bibliography 350 Index 389 vi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information Plates I The Rule of St Benedict: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 48, fo. 93. With permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. page 2 II Bede, Historia ecclesiastica: London, British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius A. xiv, fo. 84. With permission of the British Library Board. 21 III The St Gall plan: St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 1092. With permission of the Stiftsbibliothek, St Gallen. 36 IV Escomb church, County Durham. 104 V Church of St Laurence, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. 115 VI Bede, Letter to Ecgberht, bishop of York, AD 734: London, British Library, Harley MS 4688, fo. 93v. With permission of the British Library Board. 129 VII Aldhelm, De uirginitate: London, British Library, Royal MS 7 D. xxiv, fos. 85v--86. With permission of the British Library Board. 148 VIII Durham, Liber Vitae: London, British Library, Cotton MS Domitian A. vii, fo. 18b (list of abbots beginning with Ceolfrith). With permission of the British Library Board. 177 IX Durham Gospel Book: Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A. II. 10, fo. 2r. With permission of Durham Cathedral. 217 X Binding of the Stonyhurst Gospel of St John, on loan to the British Library from Stonyhurst College with permission of the Society of Jesus (British Province). 220 XI Franks casket: London, British Museum. Front face; left: scene from legend of Weland the smith; right: Adoration of the Magi c copyright the Trustees of the British Museum. 221 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information List of plates XII Hexham plaque: London, British Museum. c Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum. 222 XIII Brandon plaque: London, British Museum. c Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum. 223 XIV Sarcophagus panel from Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire. 270 XV Arched panel from Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire. 271 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information Figures 1 Map of houses connected with the tenth-century monastic revolution. page 15 2 Map of bishoprics and minsters to c. 850 (after Campbell (ed.), The Anglo-Saxons, fig. 72). 32 3 Plan of the excavations at Flixborough (after Loveluck, ‘A high-status Anglo-Saxon settlement’). 98 4 Minsters situated at Iron Age hill-forts: (a) Hanbury (after Hooke, Anglo-Saxon Landscapes of the West Midlands, fig. 2.6 (iii)); (b) Aylesbury (after Blair, ‘Minster churches in the landscape’, fig. 2.1). 100 5 Minsters located in former Roman forts: (a) Bradwell-on-Sea and (b) Reculver (after Blair, ‘Anglo-Saxon minsters’, fig. 10.6); (c) Burgh Castle (after Charles Green); (d) Lincoln (after Rodwell, ‘Churches in the landscape’, fig. 2). 102 6 Curvilinear monastic enclosures: (a) Tetbury; (b) Bisley; (c) Bampton; and (d) Lambourn (after Blair, ‘Anglo-Saxon minsters’, fig. 10.2). 105 7 Monastic influences on modern town-plans: (a) Wimborne, Dorset and (b) Lambourn, Berkshire (after Blair, ‘Minster churches in the landscape’, fig. 2.3). 107 8 Jarrow, layout of church and monastic buildings (after Cramp, ‘Jarrow church’, fig. 30). 109 9 Aligned church-groups: (a) Lindisfarne (after Blair, ‘Early churches at Lindisfarne); (b) Glastonbury (after Radford, ‘Glastonbury Abbey before 1184’ and Blair, ‘Anglo-Saxon minsters’, fig. 10.10); (c) Wells ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information List of figures (after Rodwell, ‘Churches in the landscape’, fig. 6); (d) St Augustine’s Canterbury (after Taylor and Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, fig. 61). 112 10 Map of minsters housing women to c. 850. 175 11 Map of monastic affinities (excluding Medeshamstede and its colonies). 257 12 Map of Medeshamstede and its colonies. 269 x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-73908-5 - Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900 Sarah Foot Frontmatter More information Preface Readers who have also undergone the academic rite of passage that is the successful defence of a doctoral thesis will recall how their euphoria was tempered by the conflicting advice they were given about publishing their research.
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